[PYTHONDJANGO]

Your thinking seems to be based on the idea that "the government" are the good guys. This is extremely naive - and you even mention an example of a government that does not respect basic human rights.

These tools will be abused and must be rolled backed to save freedom and democracy. Authoritarian states working together on a techno-based total control vision is a very bad development.

Thinking about it, I do not understand how any neutral person would take your position - it reads like astroturfing propaganda work.

[still_grokking]

> it reads like astroturfing propaganda work

The "but we just do what the others do" claim (which is afaik false) also made this seem fishy to me.

Especially as every hacker knows: When there is data, this data will be abused, sooner or later. There hasn't been any recorded exception to this rule. Anywhere. Ever. It's like a law of nature.

That's why the zeroes rule of data protection reads: Do not produce data. Only not existing data can't be abused.